Blitz

From the author of Learning to Lose, David Trueba’s new novel about a young Spanish architect’s affair with an older German woman.

Blitz is a romantic tragicomedy that recounts the exploits of Beto, a young architect who heads to Munich with his girlfriend to take part in a landscape-planning competition. In an instant, a text message Beto wasn’t meant to receive shatters him, leaving him bewildered & heading nowhere. But unintentionally he falls into the arms of Helga, an older woman, in a cross-generational encounter that is the heart of the tale.

With sensitivity & biting wit, Trueba crafts a story of errant souls & lost loves, humorously critiquing male narcissism, all the while showing us that in this modern age it is more important than ever to appreciate every moment & embrace intimacy when luck allows it, no matter.

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David Trueba was born in Madrid in 1969 & has been successful both as a novelist & as a scriptwriter. His debut, Four Friends, sold over 100,000 copies. Learning to Lose won the Critics Award in 2009. 

Mara Faye Lethem is an award-winning translator & author of the novel A Person’s A Person, No Matter How Small.